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Beijing Time Chase Nominated for Global Travel Award

May 7, 2014 Beijing

We did it again! Bespoke has been nominated in the ‘Greatest Innovation / Disruption’ category at the LE Miami Awards 2014 (brought to you by Travel+Leisure and DEPARTURES magazines). Yes, the LE Miami Awards, which are all about this:

“The collision of luxury and lifestyle is fracturing the contemporary travel industry, transforming travel brands into lifestyle brands with a distaste for the conventional. The LE Miami Awards have been designed to recognise the rebels at the forefront of this new take on travel.”

Love Letters from Shanghai

April 10, 2014 Beijing

This month we’re in Shanghai, dashing about between French Concession cafes and meeting all manner of interesting people as we prepare to set up Bespoke Shanghai! In the meantime, we’d like to hear from you. If you’ve had a fantastic time in Shanghai at some point in the last 18 months, we want to know about it.

Liang Shi – Cantonese and Coffee in 798 Art District

April 10, 2014 Beijing

Opened in March by Liu Feng, a designer associated with the UCCA Gallery next door, Liang Shi is more than just another artfully designed coffee stop for gallery hoppers (although it fulfils that role nicely). It’s a fully-fledged Cantonese restaurant, offering sweet and savoury dim sum, roasted, braised and stewed meats, soups, wok-fried vegetables and house specials including sautéed shrimp balls with scallops and chilli, and pan-fried foie gras, Chinese style.

Here’s Johnny! Bespoke Gets Arty with Mr. Depp

April 9, 2014 Beijing

Johnny Depp in Beijing — Here’s Sarah and the Bespoke crew with our new favourite client!

Another month, another A-list superstar! On April 1 Johnny Depp dropped into Beijing to promote his new movie, sci-fi thriller Transcendence. A keen artist and musician, JD was eager to check out Beijing’s famous 798 Art District… and that’s where Bespoke Beijing came in.

We used our Beijing expertise to help set up a series of meetings with local artists in a handful of the area’s most interesting spaces so that Johnny could get involved in the local culture. Here he is hanging out with Marx, boss of Li-Pi Records, a store stacked with vintage vinyl as well as a cute bar and café.

5 Things You Didn’t Know About the Drum and Bell Towers

April 9, 2014 Beijing

Duung…Duung…Duung…Duung. That, readers, is the sound of the mighty Drum and Bell Towers, Beijing’s bastions of time-keeping, sounding out the nightly curfew in the Qing dynasty. These twin towers of power are at the heart of our latest Limited Edition Public Walking Tour with Beijing Postcards, The Nightwatch.These incredible structures have survived waves of upheaval over the centuries, but how much do you really know about them? Test your knowledge with our 5, little-known facts below.

1. The Bell Tower used to be a cinema

Making The Nightwatch – Video Shorts

April 9, 2014 Beijing

The team of historians at Beijing Postcards has been researching for months to uncover new facts and original material for our brand new Nightwatch Limited Edition Public Walking Tour.

By piecing together clues from old newspaper archives, academic books in Chinese and other languages, diaries, and interviews with local experts – even ordinary citizens with long memories – they have built up a fascinating picture of nighttime Beijing during the late Qing Dynasty. At a time when a strict nightly curfew was in place, former soldiers of the Eight Banner Army (otherwise known as The Nightwatch), would patrol the streets to the beat of the Drum and Bell Towers.

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